Kick Gallery: CRAIG MACDONALD

Award winning sculptor Craig MacDonald has a show running at Kick Gallery ‘Memento‘ This latest show follows on from his 2010 exhibition ‘Rocket Science‘. Mr MacDonald works are standout, his works live so well in three dimensions it’s hard to flatten the descriptives to words, except perhaps to say wow, they are seriously inspired. His use of bronze is cleverly hidden by an overlay of pure originality. Each piece in this show is so filled with imagination and exquisite craft that one finds several views are still not adequate. MacDonalds’ show runs until December 10.

In February this year, MacDonald was awarded the Montalto Sculpture Prize. MacDonald received the $20,000 award ahead of a strong field of other significant recognised Australian sculptors. The winning work ‘Witness’ was described by Montalto as “‘Hovering just above the surface of the ground, Witness appears as if from another time – aged and totem like, its presence and movement is a reminder that time is not static and what has been seen before can be witnessed again” Witness is on display at the ‘Memento‘ exhibition. Read the full article »»»»

Sculptural Thought: Informal Talks & Drinks With Artist Rius Carson

Kick Gallery

4 Peel Street
Collingwood 3055
open tue-fri 11am-6pm & sat 12-5pm
www.kickgallery.com

12-5pm Saturday August 21 (election day)
12-5pm Saturday August 28 2010

Rius Carson, based at his property in Eppalock near Bendigo, will be in Melbourne this Saturday the 21st (election day) and the following Saturday the 28th to discuss his work from noon with Kick hosting drinks later on both days (21st/28th) between 4-5pm. Please come along if you would like to hear more about the work directly from the artist and see his latest series of sculptures up close. Read the full article »»»»

Kick Gallery: The Aerosol Assassin

The Aerosol Assassin: Refining the spirit of graffiti, of guerrilla art can be a tricky practice in contemporary arts. Although contemporary and post graffiti has become an important genre within art today, it is still too often viewed with a specious eye. Talking about contemporary graffiti in art history, the discussion generally starts with Keith Haring or Jean-Michel Basquiat and ends with Banksy.  All this in mind, John Williams  - DUEL – sidles the thin boundary between contemporary art and his much loved street work, a foot either side of a distinct line. Duel’s technique is much lauded by his – street – contemporaries, it is also easily recognized by those who gaze on contemporary abstract art. Duel’s refined stensiling style drags the mind back to Post-Painterly Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism, in this vein Duel is very much an Action Painter.

Duel’s Aerosol Assassin exhibition is a little reminiscent of Mark Tobey’s more intricate works, and like Tobey Duel’s pieces are infact works within works, multi layered, multi messaged geometric abstract works that begged a viewer to seek THE hidden meaning. Amusingly the artist informed me that each picture has a hidden word, then warned he’d had people stand in front of a picture for 45 minutes trying to find it. This latest show is a serious collision of gestural abstraction and guerrilla street art, the works lift Duels art to his next level. The works are intricate, layered and spontaneous. Bursts of color have always been part of Duels form, many of his current works simply pop with color, line and contrast. Read the full article »»»»

Kick Gallery: Tim Vagg, The Boxer

TIM VAGG

The Boxer Paintings

Exhibition Opening 6-8pm June 09

Exhibition runs June 07 – June 25 2011

In his new series, The Boxer Paintings, Tim Vagg continues his recent artistic investigations into Australian history posing questions about the notion and formation of our national identity. Having painted portraits of specific Australian heros and antiheros in recent exhibitions ‘the boxer’ becomes the central motif in his new series. Filled with metaphor and allegory Vagg’s new works again invite his audiences to re-look and reassess Australian history and identity.

Kick Gallery: Ben Elisha

Craig MacDonald Awarded the Montalto Sculpture Prize 2011

February 2011: Craig MacDonald was awarded the Montalto Sculpture Prize 2011. MacDonald received the $20,000 award ahead of a strong field of other significant recognised Australian sculptors and will now work toward creating new works for other major sculpture prizes in 2011.

MacDonald, who is represented by Kick Gallery and had his debut exhibition Rocket Science in November 2010, will exhibit at Kick again in 2011 from September 20 – October 8. Editions of works from Rocket Science are currently available and can viewed at www.kickgallery.com/craig-macdonald/works

The winning work ‘Witness’ is described by Montalto as “‘Hovering just above the surface of the ground, Witness appears as if from another time – aged and totem like, its presence and movement is a reminder that time is not static and what has been seen before can be witnessed again”

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Craig MacDonald
Witness
Bronze
(Edition of 4)
175 x 54 x 24cm
2011

For further information or to purchase works contact Jacob Hoerner, Kick Gallery Director, on 0412 243 818, via email at info@kickgallery.com or visit the Kick Gallery stockroom at 4 Peel Street Collingwood. Kick Gallery is open Tuesday -Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment.

For more info on Craig MacDonald visit www.kickgallery.com/craig-macdonald/
Montalto Sculpture Prize visit www.montalto.com.au/sculpture/

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Artist Profile! Leigh Backhouse

Artsist: Leigh Backhouse

Representing Galley: Kick Gallery

4 Peel Street, Collingwood, Australia
info@kickgallery.com
Contact: Jacob Hoerner

http://www.kickgallery.com

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Kick Gallery: Joel Zika

Kick Gallery presents;

Joel Zika
Pleasure Island

Opening 6-8pm Thursday February 3 2011
Exhibition runs February 1 – February 19

Joel Zika
Pleasure Island
Exhibition runs February 01 – February 19 2011

Like the dilapidated castles of gothic fiction the works in Joel Zika’s Pleasure Island take architectural elements from a bygone era and create a new sublime spatial experience. Pleasure Island refers to the place where young boys are taken in the 18th century children’s story Pinocchio. It is a place where every temptation and vice has been given physical form in the façades of amusement rides, arcades and bars.

In the contemporary cultural context we revel in the symbols of extreme fears and emotion that the gothic used so well. Ghosts and skeletons are part of our visual language and speak of an underlying moral position perhaps better hidden than in generations past. The façade encapsulates the journey that awaits the entrant, an over the top sales pitch to make you come and explore. Our attraction to vice and the temptation of the commercial combine playfully in these works to create a theme park within the gallery.

Kick Gallery is located at 4 Peel Street Collingwood & open Tuesday-Friday11am-6pm & Saturday 12-5pm

For further information visit www.kickgallery.com/pleasure-island/ or contact the gallery at info@kickgallery.com